In my early teens I used to swim at the neighbours as they had a huge rope swing into the creek.

One day as I was leaving at sunset. I saw their young kid (8-9?) fuck up a swing and hit the rocks on his way in. Crunch, splash, nothing.

I stood there next to his parents as the ripples faded and the kid didn’t reappear. I waited for them to do something but they laughed and drank more wine. So I ran back down to the creek, dived in and swam down into the large deep dark waterhole. Took me a few tries but I found him about 12 feet down under a rock overhang.

Hauled him up, dragged him up onto the shore, started chest compressions as he wasn’t conscious or breathing and he ejected a whole bunch of water, shuddered and started coughing and trying to breathe.

At this point his parents had wandered down with their wine glasses in hand to tell him “you’re alright” while the kid cried. So I got up and left.

That was pretty much the end of my faith in humanity.

About to hit 500k KMs.

Everyone’s hair started levitating. I freaked out and insisted we all leave the mountain top lookout immediately.

Massive bolt hit our prior location about a minute later.

Yep

The Goodies

Monkey Magic

Babylon 5

Trapdoor

Some brands suck but I’m oat milk in coffee, cereal, everything now.

It only stores 750MB, but it’s in a RAID 150000000 array.

Prioritise everything else over where the car goes? Madness.

Weaves wildly onto the pavement full of school kids but accurately adjusted the aircon

The News.

An excellent form of inculcation.

You are either being duplicitous or are astonishingly certain about things you have no idea about.

Either way, this is a waste of time.

Oh, you are just full of shit. No worries, carry on.

You and your vanishing twin were invisible at 7 months.

Your mom was not a little lady, so my best explanation would be that they never saw “both” of these babies at the same time in the ultrasound. They were both you.

I unwillingly rode a giant tortoise.

AI

That is fair too I think. Language is complex sometimes.

I guess it is that everyone has been asked to give their input and some are “give up meat and drinking” some are “only eat meat and drink bourbon”. So when someone feels inclined to say “no” to one of them it is not in the spirit of this post which is speak from your lived experience, not your preemptive judgement.

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It’s on the internet, so there are bots.